Nokia. Some of the phones sold by the HMD company under the well-known Finnish brand had a serious problem revealed the other day, and all their users, and not only, should know about its existence. Specifically, the Nokia 7 Plus phones sent data to a Chinese server without their users knowing what was happening, the problem itself being a very serious one at a time when Huawei is accused that its products could be spied on by the government Chinese.
Nokia. Those from HMD Global have acknowledged the fact that this phone model sent data to a server in China, with a customer of the company saying that information about GSM connectivity, the phone identifier, or the phone number being transmitted. Those from HMD Global said that they investigated the problem, discovering that it is a software problem, which does not affect other phone models in their offer, but they did not explain why the data reached the respective Chinese server.
Nokia. SERIOUS PROBLEM Discovered in Phones
Nokia. The respective server is owned by the mobile phone operator China Telecom, and the data was transferred from the moment the phones were switched on by the user. The problem would have been discovered by a Nokia phone user who would have discovered the fact that the data is transmitted unencrypted to the server of the mobile phone operator, and from here many online discussions about the whole problem started.
Finland's data protection ombudsman said on Thursday he would investigate whether Nokia-branded phones had breached data rules after a report said the handsets sent information to China. "We can confirm that no personally identifiable information has been shared with any third party," HMD Global said in an email to Reuters, adding there had been "an error in the software packaging process in a single batch of one device model".
Nokia. Despite what was discovered by the press from Norway, and by a user, those from HMD Global claim that they would not have transmitted to the servers in China data that would identify its customers. If the phone number of the smartphone was really transmitted, then Nokia is not really telling the truth in this situation, and although things are quite unclear now, it will be interesting to see what other information will appear in relation to these accusations.
